by Paul Krainak | Mar 5, 2024 | Blog
Cut flowers in vases are a codification and confiscation of nature and aesthetically masterful. The vase alone denotes a significant stratification of education and class. On the other hand, there’s the genre of botanical art, which hung near the lowest rung of...
by Paul Krainak | Feb 4, 2024 | Blog
It’s no secret that the east coast art economy attracts more industry affiliates than it can support. Subsequently thousands artists become dispersed in differently-sized communities with their own subjects, traditions, and patronage each year. The ideal place for...
by Paul Krainak | Jan 2, 2024 | Blog
As curatorial trends power themselves into into the Janus stage of 2024 I remember how much new art was once about finding justifications for change and building a coherent narrative out of real life – if possible folding oneself into, or talking back to, a...
by Paul Krainak | Dec 6, 2023 | Blog
One has to appreciate the soft-landing easel painting made after fending off a characterization as an elitist commodity a decade or so ago. The breadth of painting’s identity has benefited from its desirability in both professional and lay contexts, as well as...
by Paul Krainak | Nov 7, 2023 | Blog
As culture becomes more virtual, qualitative, global and for the last few decades fatigued from distancing itself from the epistemological and topographic world of our fathers and it shrinks from higher education offerings, its form and space fall more in sync with...
